Christophe Gouel

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I am working as an economist at the World Bank, Development research group for the Agriculture and Rural Development program.

My research topic is the dynamics of commodity prices. I study the design of optimal stabilisation policies through storage and trade policies. One of my current interests is the coordination of trade policies. Food markets have recently experienced highly non-cooperative trade policies with many countries restricting their food exports and contributing to fuel price spikes. My work involves trying to design trade institutions that would help preventing such events.

Short vitae

• In 2008/2011, I was an economist at the Public Economics, INRA laboratory. I was also a PhD student at the Econometrics Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique. My PhD dissertation revolves around agricultural prices fluctuations and of the optimal design of stabilisation policies. I defended it in April 2011 and I was under the direction of Jean-Marc Bourgeon and Sébastien Jean.
• In 2006/2008, I was an economist at CEPII, where I am still research associate. In CEPII, I contributed to the development of the applied general equilibrium model MIRAGE and I used it to study issues such as agricultural policies, trade policies and WTO negotiations.

Research topics

• Agricultural policies
• Commodity price dynamics
• Computational methods
• Food security
• International trade